MPH with Public Health Informatics Concentration Curriculum

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To earn the MPH degree with a concentration in PHI, you must satisfactorily complete a minimum of 45 credits that include a combination of core public health courses, public health informatics courses, elective courses, an internship, and a final concentraion project. The specific distribution of courses is as follows:

Public health core courses

Take all four courses for a total of 12 credits

• PBHL P510 Introduction to Public Health (3 credits)
• PBHL P511 Comprehensive Methods and Applications in Biostatistics and Epidemiology (3 credits)
• PBHL P513 Planning, Evaluation & Management (3 credits)
• PBHL P512 Communication & Leadership (3 credits)

Public health informatics concentration courses

Take all six courses for a total of 18 credits

• PBHL-B 552 Fundamentals of Data Management (3 credits)
• PBHL-E 635 Foundations in Public Health Informatics (3 credits)
• PBHL-H 521 Management Science for Health Services Administration (3 credits)
• PBHL-H 628 Healthcare Information Systems (3 credits)
• PBHL-E 645 Information Exchange for Population Health (3 credits)
• PBHL-E 647 Introduction to Population Health Analytics (3 credits)

Public health informatics electives courses

Select two courses for a total of six credits

• PBHL-H 781 Research Designs in Health Policy & Management (3 credits)
• PBHL-A 640 Public Health Applications of GIS (3 credits)
• INFO-B 581 Health Informatics Standards and Terminologies (3 credits)
• INFO-B 585 Biomedical Analytics (3 credits)
• INFO-B 642 Clinical Decision Support Systems (3 credits)
• INFO-H 515 Introduction to Data Analytics (3 credits)
• INFO-H 517 Visualization Design, Analysis, and Evaluation (3 credits)

Select one course for a total of three credits

• PBHL-B 652 Biostatistics for Public Health II (3 credits)
• PBHL-E 601 Advanced Epidemiology (3 credits)
• PBHL-E 609 Infectious Disease Epidemiology (3 credits)
• PBHL-H 641 Ethics in Public Health (3 credits)
• PBHL-H 657 Application of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Public Health (3 credits)

Public health practical experience

Take six credits.

• PBHL-E 603 Public Health Internship (3 credits) – 240 total hours required; 200 of these hours must be completed prior to gaining course authorization for the Final Concentration Project
• PBHL-E 706 Informatics Final Concentration Project (3 credits)

Certified in Public Health exam

MPH students are required to pass the CPH exam prior to graduation.

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